Mary McCarthy Quotes about Giving

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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

Mary McCarthy

Believe, Giving, Historical

Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

Mary McCarthy

Character, Giving, Personality

Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

Mary McCarthy Quotes about Giving

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